FREEDOM. 11 — 27 August 2018 Baillie Gifford Programme Children’s — See p91—137 Thanks to all our Sponsors and Supporters Funders Benefactors James & Morag Anderson Jane Attias Geoff & Mary Ball The BEST Trust Binks Trust Lel & Robin Blair Sir Ewan & Lady Brown Lead Sponsor Major Supporter Richard & Catherine Burns Gavin & Kate Gemmell Murray & Carol Grigor Eimear Keenan Richard & Sara Kimberlin Archie McBroom Aitken Professor Alexander & Dr Elizabeth McCall Smith Anne McFarlane Investment managers Ian Rankin & Miranda Harvey Lady Susan Rice Lord Ross Fiona & Ian Russell Major Sponsors The Thomas Family Claire & Mark Urquhart William Zachs & Martin Adam And all those who wish to remain anonymous SINCE Scottish Mortgage Investment Folio Patrons 909 1 Trust PLC Jane & Bernard Nelson Brenda Rennie And all those who wish to remain anonymous Trusts The AEB Charitable Trust Barcapel Foundation Binks Trust The Booker Prize Foundation Sponsors The Castansa Trust John S Cohen Foundation The Crerar Hotels Trust Cruden Foundation The Educational Institute of Scotland The Ettrick Charitable Trust The Hugh Fraser Foundation The Jasmine Macquaker Charitable Fund Margaret Murdoch Charitable Trust New Park Educational Trust Russell Trust The Ryvoan Trust The Turtleton Charitable Trust With thanks The Edinburgh International Book Festival is sited in Charlotte Square Gardens by the kind permission of the Charlotte Square Proprietors. Media Sponsors We would like to thank the publishers who help to make the Festival possible, Essential Edinburgh for their help with our George Street venues, the Friends and Patrons of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and all the Supporters other individuals who have donated to the Book Festival this year. Contents Edinburgh 2 – 7 Highlights and themes International 8 – 90 Events for adults Book Festival 91 – 135 Events for children and teens 136 – 137 Selected events for young adults 138 – 140 Info for your visit 11 — 27 August 2018 141 Booking info 142 Festival City info 143 – 145 Author index Free Entry! Entry is FREE to our leafy tented village in Charlotte Square Gardens and on the west end of George Street, Edinburgh. Open 9.30 until late. Book Tickets Online: www.edbookfest.co.uk, What’s On? Bring Your Children by phone: 0345 373 5888 or in person. See page 141 1000 authors, illustrators, poets and Relax in our family-friendly space, browse for full information. musicians appear in over 800 events to our dedicated bookshop for children, enjoy inspire, challenge and entertain you. Find fun interactive events or take part in free daily well-loved favourites and the hottest new activities. See pages 91-137 for the Baillie talents in chat-show style interviews, panel Gifford Children’s Programme and page 140 debates, workshops, storytelling, interactive for helpful info for visiting with children. crafts, performances and live-draws for adults, teens and children. Entertainment for Teens Browse Our Bookshops Thrilling events for teens covering everything from love, loss and identity, to We run three large independent bookshops fantasy, horror and survival can be found and two book signing tents across Charlotte throughout the Baillie Gifford Children and George Street opens Square Gardens and George Street, stocked Young People’s Programme (pages 91-137). with thousands of titles from bestsellers We have grouped together select events for on Sat 4 August to indie debuts. Feel free to come in and convenience (pages 136-137). browse. All proceeds from book sales go Our Bookshop, café-bar and Box towards developing the Book Festival. Office on George Street opens on Events Sat 4 Aug, the week before the Book Festival’s opening weekend. Drop by Eat and Drink Book Festival events take place in our for a drink and a browse. venues in Charlotte Square Gardens or on A range of cafés and bars plus an ice-cream George Street in central Edinburgh (except trike serve hot drinks, cold beers, wines, The Hidden - see page 7). Events last one light meals, snacks and treats (see page 139 hour, unless otherwise specified on the for details). listings, and most are followed by a book signing with the author. 3 Freedom to Think What effect will Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s presidencies have on the world? How will Brexit change our everyday lives? Perhaps these big questions can be answered by asking which freedoms we want to insist on. Free speech; freedom of expression; freedom of the individual: for many years these have been popular ideas in democracies across the world… But are we entering a new era in which they are no longer the priority for many people? Some are even asking whether democracy itself is failing. In a major initiative supported by the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, the Book Festival has commissioned a series of essays to explore ideas about freedom, both here in Scotland and in other places across the globe. These essays are published in a special supplement to Gutter magazine called The Freedom Papers and they will provide rich material for a series of debates. Which freedoms must we insist on, and which ones are we willing to give up in the name of a better society? These are questions that will lend a unique flavour to the discussions in August – and we invite you to get involved in identifying some answers. Here in Edinburgh, we proudly assert our freedom to revel in spectacular, thought-provoking, often unforgettable discussions with some of the finest writers in the world. For this year’s Book Festival we’ve brought public thinkers and writers together for a vast celebration of books and ideas, with over 1000 writers taking part across the programme for adults and the Baillie Gifford Children’s Programme. As well as hundreds of events in our Charlotte Square Gardens site, we’ve expanded onto George Street again. There, as well as a new bookshop and café-bar, we’ve created a venue called the Spark Theatre in honour of one of Edinburgh’s finest writers, Muriel Spark. Edinburgh was the world’s first UNESCO City of Literature. It was given that extraordinary honour partly because of the exceptional success of its Book Programme Partners Festival, but also because of the contribution to literature made by world- renowned authors like Muriel Spark. We are proud to celebrate her centenary Accion Cultural Española this year with a series of tributes to one of the most significant Scottish writers Adelaide: UNESCO City of Music of the 20th century, and we are thrilled to bring back to life, for a one-off ARC Scotland performance, Doctors of Philosophy - the only play that Spark ever wrote. The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction British Council The British Library Nick Barley Canada Council for the Arts Director Confucius Institute for Scotland Creative New Zealand Culture Ireland Dutch Foundation for Literature Estonian Cultural Endowment FILI (Finnish Literature Exchange) Goethe-Institut Glasgow Icelandic Literature Society Institut Français Thank you... Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh Lithuanian Cultural Institute Staging a festival of this scale would be unimaginable without the support of a huge Lyra group of people and organisations. Our Sponsors and Supporters, listed on the front Ministry of Culture, Taiwan page and including our Lead Sponsor Baillie Gifford, are essential to our success. We are The National Involvement Network grateful to many individual Benefactors and Trusts, but in particular to James and Morag Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund Anderson, whose extremely generous support has made possible so many innovations in NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad) recent years. We also receive vital funding from Creative Scotland, the City of Edinburgh Norwegian Consulate General Edinburgh Council and the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund. We are hugely PAMIS grateful to the Proprietors of Charlotte Square Gardens, who have let us make our home Platform Latvian Literature in their Gardens for the past 35 years. Heartfelt thanks to everyone in the superb Book Polish Cultural Institute Festival team, but especially to Roland Gulliver for his tireless work in shaping the adult Publishing Scotland programme, and Janet Smyth for capably overseeing the Baillie Gifford Children’s and Swedish Arts Council Schools programmes and our new activities across the year. Above all, thanks to you, the participants: to the brilliant authors and their courageous publishers as well as everyone who buys tickets and books. This Festival belongs to you. 4 Adele Patrick Yanis Varoufakis Guest REVOLTING WOMEN KILLING DEMOCRACY? Selectors Adele Patrick is the Lifelong Learning and When Greece’s financial problems reached Creative Development Manager at Glasgow their peak in 2015, Syriza’s finance minister Women’s Library and is a passionate was the economist Yanis Varoufakis. Since and active advocate for creating a more leaving the Greek government, Varoufakis has inclusive society. For her selected series, written a series of books arguing that politics Patrick spotlights the field of Queered and economics do not exist in isolation, Nigerian writing; the feminist continuum, including And The Weak Suffer What They through the rich vein of suffragette-themed Must? and Talking to My Daughter About the publishing and makes space for discussions Economy. In this series of conversations, he led by women of colour, focused on detoxing further explores the question of whether the institutions. Herland, the legendary Glasgow current form of globalised capitalism is forcing Women’s Library accessible salon, has its democracy towards its ultimate demise. In first Festival outing (expect a joy-filled a wide-ranging strand of discussions with mash-up of diverse musical and literary politicians and writers from around the lionesses and raw, braw talent) and makes world, Varoufakis explores the ways in which feminist waves with a series of free events democracy can be restored to health. to honour Revolting Women – the militants and mavericks from 1918-2018 – whilst providing an inspirational oasis for writers Ehsan Abdollahi and readers of all ages.